Dead of Winter by Brian Moreland

At a fort deep in the Ontario wilderness in 1878, a ghastly predator is attacking colonists and spreading a gruesome plague—his victims turn into ravenous cannibals with an unending hunger for human flesh. Inspector Tom Hatcher has faced a madman before, when he tracked down Montreal’s infamous Cannery Cannibal. But can even he stop the slaughter this time?

In Montreal, exorcist Father Xavier visits an asylum where the Cannery Cannibal is imprisoned. But the killer who murdered thirteen women is more than just a madman who craves human meat. He is possessed by a shape-shifting demon. Inspector Hatcher and Father Xavier must unravel a mystery that has spanned centuries and confront a predator that has turned the frozen woods into a killing ground where evil has come to feed.

In 2007, Brian Moreland's debut novel, Shadows in the Mist, won a gold medal for Best Horror Novel in an international contest and was published in Austria and Germany under the title Schattenkrieger. When not writing, Brian edits documentaries and TV commercials. He has traveled the globe making films and worked two tours at military bases in Iraq with a documentary crew.

Unrated Critic Reviews for Dead of Winter

New York Journal of Books

“Brian Moreland deftly blends Algonquian legend with Catholic belief, creating a spiritual plague and a villain that are more chilling than the scariest creations of either belief system. Tossing in elements of gothic family curses, remote snowed-in horror, and serial killer suspense, Dead of Win...

The Crow's Caw

The descriptions throughout the entire book paint a frighteningly real and believable picture of the unfolding chaos and one can quite easily see that Moreland certainly spent plenty of time researching this particular era prior to actually writing the book.